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If you're getting married, have been married, or had the unfortunate fate of being involved in helping plan a wedding, these will sound somewhat familiar:
"You can have Aunt Lucille take pictures. Don't waste money on a photographer. You need a skilled DJ."
"Have your sister's boyfriend DJ. Hire a professional photographer."
"Your mum can bake the cake, but get a designer for the centerpieces."
"You can make your own centerpieces but not the cake!"
"Have an open bar or everyone will be pissed."
"Have a cash bar or everyone will be pissed."
"No matter what you do…"
"If you have to cut corners…"
And so on.
So here I am, planning a wedding. A marriage of words, thoughts, ideas, dreams, technology, design, and marketing.
How I'm to untangle all the information and advice, I truly don't know.
Self publishing is kind of a DIY project. (Thankfully, not all of it since DIY and I don't really get along.)
Authors everywhere have their own ideas of exactly what you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do yourself and what you ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT spend your money on. I actually like this because, through their own experiences, they are helping other writers. Which is a lovely thing to do.
The differing opinions are mind-boggling.
"You must hire a digital artist for your cover."
"You can make your own cover in Canva or even Word!"
"Don't pay a proofreader. Have your friends look it over. Save your money for marketing."
"Put yourself out there and sell your own book. You have to get a proofreader."
"Find someone to format the book or it'll be a disaster."
"It's easy. Just grab it from Word and upload it to Createspace."
"Take your own author photo…"
"Get an experienced photographer…"
"No matter what you do…"
"If you have to cut corners…"
And so on.
What's a writer to do?
Okay, gentle readers. I know you. I like you. I have your books. (I think you like me well enough.) I really want to know…
Did you self-publish? What were your experiences? What did you do yourself and what did you hire someone for? Any advice? I'm listening. And I'm ready to hear it.


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Season Stepp: Chestnut uses go well beyond 'roasting on an open fire'
"There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time — for we are telling Winter Stories, Ghost Stories, or more shame for us — round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it." — Charles Dickens
"Chestnuts roasting over an open fire?" We've all heard the songs, the quotes, but how many of us have actually had a chestnut?
Chestnuts can be used in a number of both sweet and savory recipes. They can be made into flour for baking, ground into a paste, added to stuffings, or used to make creamy sauces.
When selecting fresh chestnuts, choose large chestnuts that feel heavy for their size and have no visible mold spots. They should not rattle within the hull when shaken.
To roast, place a kitchen towel or cut-resistant glove in your hand. Use a sharp paring knife to score an "x" into the shell of the nut. This will allow steam to escape while roasting. Whether you are opting for an open fire or oven, wrap the chestnuts in foil and place in the fire or in an oven set to 400 degrees. Roasting will take upwards of 20-30 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool, steaming in the foil, for 5-10 more minutes. At this point, a towel can be used to help peel and squeeze out the inner flesh. Alternatively, once scored with a knife, chestnuts can be boiled for about 10 minutes.
Chestnuts can be a hassle to cook, but luckily this time of year, there are much easier alternatives than roasting your own. Canned or vacuum-packed chestnuts are available at many grocery and specialty stores, already cooked, peeled and ready to go. In France, 'marrons glaces,' or candied chestnuts, can be purchased that are already candied in sugar syrup and glazed. Yum.
They also pair well with many other flavors, including apples, caramel, chocolate, coffee, pears and vanilla, as well as earthy flavors such as rosemary, sage and winter squash (butternut, pumpkin, acorn squash).
As if chestnuts need additional promotion, they are good for you. They have fewer calories than many other nuts, are gluten-free and are the only nuts to contain vitamin C. Studies show chestnuts help to lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure, so eat up!
2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed in the fridge
All-purpose flour, as needed
¼ pound chestnuts, cooked and shucked
2 tablespoons toasted almonds
¼ cup bittersweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoons Amaretto liquor
¹/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¹/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Pinch of kosher salt
1 egg, beaten
Canola or peanut oil, for frying
Powdered sugar, for dusting
On a lightly floured surface, unfold the puff pastry and roll to about ¹/8-inch thickness. Use a 3-inch round cutter to cut out pieces. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a Silpat liner and refrigerate.
In the bowl of a food processor, chop chestnuts until finely ground. Add almonds and chocolate and process until smooth. Add honey, Amaretto, cinnamon, nutmeg, pure vanilla extract and kosher salt.
Add at least 3 inches of oil to a deep pot and heat to 350 degrees.
Remove pastry from the fridge. Place about 2 teaspoons of chestnut filling in the center each pastry round. Use your fingers to brush a small amount of egg around the edge of half the pastry. Fold the pastry over and press out any air from the filling. Press well to seal the edges.
Carefully lower 3 or 4 pastries into the hot oil. Fry until golden brown, flipping as needed. Remove from oil with a spider, tongs or slotted spoons. Place onto a paper towel-lined plate and dust with powdered sugar. Serve hot.


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MINNEAPOLIS, Kan. (AP) A judge has sentenced an inmate to about 11 years for escaping from the Ottawa County jail.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says in a release that Drew Edward Wade, 22, of Topeka was sentenced to 136 months after pleading guilty to the escape charge in January. Wade was ordered to serve the 11-year sentence consecutively to the seven years he's serving for previous convictions in Shawnee County.
Wade and four other inmates escaped from the Ottawa jail in April 2012. A second inmate, Eric James, was sentenced in July to 18 years in federal prison for carjacking charges related to the escape.
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A recent academic paper (PDF) shows "that Tor faces even greater risks from traffic correlation than previous studies suggested." In other words, one of the world's best tools for keeping online speech anonymous is at risk in a previously known—but now even clearer—fashion.
In the wake of a recent uptick of Tor usage (whether from a botnet or from people inspired by former National Security Agency [NSA] contractor Edward Snowden), a reminder of these risks is certainly germane to today's Internet.
The new research has shown that a potential adversary with control of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) or autonomous systems (ASes) that have large-scale network control (like an ISP), could expose and identify a Tor user, given enough time.
That could include a nation in which the Internet is state-controlled, like Iran, or a vast telecommunications company like Level 3, but it could also certainly include a very sophisticated adversary with significant technical and legal resources on its side, like the NSA.
"Essentially what we're saying is location matters," Chris Wacek, a researcher at Georgetown University and one of the paper's authors, told Ars.
"If you are a user connecting from Iran and you're connecting to a destination in Iran, you can plausibly assume that the Iranian government knows who you are. If you have a concern that that type of entity might pose an adversarial threat to you, then you should be aware that they may be able to compromise you given a long enough period of time, even if you're using Tor."
Essentially, an adversary can simply wait long enough so that your traffic will turn up on their own network points that are also on the Tor network. Given more time and more traffic, there is greater likelihood that an adversary can figure out who you are.
"If you use Tor as a casual user, your security isn't going to go down dramatically"
Specifically, a group of five researchers at Georgetown University and the Naval Research Laboratory—the arm of the Navy that originally developed Tor—explained it this way:
An adversary that provides no more bandwidth than some volunteers do today can deanonymize any given user within three months of regular Tor use with over 50 percent probability and within six months with over 80 percent probability. We observe that use of BitTorrent is particularly unsafe, and we show that long-lived ports bear a large security cost for their performance needs. We also observe that the Congestion-Aware Tor proposal exacerbates these vulnerabilities.
Some of our results against an adversary controlling ASes or IXPs are similarly alarming. Some users experience over 95 percent chance of compromise within three months against a single AS or IXP. We see that users' security varies significantly with their location. However, an adversary with additional ASes or IXPs has much higher compromise speed, notably against even those users in "safer" locations. Such an adversary is highly relevant in today's setting in which many large organizations control multiple ASes or IXPs. Surprisingly, we observe that high diversity in destinations may actually result in improved security against a network adversary.
The folks behind Tor have said that they have long been aware of this vulnerability.
"Yes, a big enough adversary can screw Tor users," Roger Dingledine, the project's director, wrote on a Tor e-mail list earlier this week. "But we knew that. I think it's great that the paper presents the dual risks of relay adversaries and link adversaries, since most of the time when people are freaking out about one of them, they're forgetting the other one. And we really should raise the guard rotation period. If you do their compromise graphs again with guards rotated every nine months, they look way different."
But that doesn't mean that everyone should necessarily disconnect from Tor, Wacek added.
"What our research shows is that [if] an adversary who is powerful like the NSA is paying attention to you—and is looking for you and trying to deanonymize you—[they are] likely to be able to do it if they have access to the right network locations and the right resources," he said. "If you use Tor as a casual user, your security isn't going to go down dramatically. I think what we're showing is that for a certain type of user, potentially a dissident who always uses Tor to avoid being captured, this may be a significant concern for them. If you don't want your employer to know that you're searching for health information and are worried about your health insurance going up, it's probably not a concern."
The paper will be formally presented at a computer science conference in Berlin in November 2013.


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I mean, how hard is it to catch a flight? This is a rhetorical question for Lindsay Lohan, who missed her plane last night from New York to attend her trial in L.A. this morning. (We're now on her twenty-something trial. When you move into the double digits, you should get a free Shakeweight or some turtle wax or an IHop coupon, right?)
Apparently she bounced from her original flight because she thought the plane was "unsafe" and has now chartered a private jet courtesy of energy drink company Mr. Pink. As we write this she has less than two hours to make it to court. Game on.
Our Lindsay faces charges of lying to a police officer about a car crash, reckless driving and violating her probation for a shoplifting conviction, and may be sent to the clink if she's found guilty of any of the above; she may have to serve 245 days. Her attorney Mark Heller insists that it's not an issue of substance abuse anymore:
"She does not need rehab," Heller told reporters after the last hearing. "I am hoping we will be able to come to some creative out-of-the-box answer."
Lohan is already undergoing "one-on-one psychotherapy," he said.
"Lindsay doesn't have a problem with alcohol and drugs," Heller said. "Lindsay has other types of issues that are being dealt with."
On the latest episode of PBS's turn-of-the-century English drama Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kourtney and Kim decided to have a competition to see whose vagina smelled better, and... actually, wait, let me just copy and paste because I can't.
When Khloe finally joined them in London, her older siblings shocked her by carrying out the plan, and in eye-popping scenes led the sisters in taking it in turns to wipe themselves on hand towels and forcing her to smell it.
'Do I want to be the judge of the pineapple p****? Not really,' Khloe said. 'But we're sisters - If can't smell their p****** what else am I supposed to do?'
Kourtney was the first to present her towel, with Khloe sniffing and saying: 'Mmm, smells like a tropical island.'
As Kim walked out, Khloe told her 'I'm not smelling Kanye's ****', but Kim forced her towel on her.
'Oooh,' Khloe said, blushing. 'It smells like a flower p****.'
As the sisters waited for her decision, she finally said: 'Honestly, I will say that Kim's p**** smells the best."
Taylor Swift said stuff. Look, it's a slow news day. Roll with it. Here she admits that "I Knew You Were Trouble" was about Harry Styles and discusses singing at the Brit Awards in that insane wedding dress with her ex-boyfriend in the audience:
''Well, it's not hard to access that emotion when the person the song is directed at is standing by the side of the stage watching ... You're balancing the analytical side of your brain which is telling you where to go and how to go there, with the other side of your brain, which is saying, 'Feel everything you're singing, and show it on your face. Feel everything exactly as you felt it when you wrote the song.'"
And here she is on wearing sneakers and sitting on the bleachers and being the one who makes you laugh when you know you're about to cry.
''There's really no sound quite as loud as a phone not ringing, a letter unanswered. I don't quite understand it, because I either want to be with you or I don't ... I really don't feel like pursuing something that isn't real or isn't going somewhere, so if it's established that someone's commitment-phobic, I'm sorry - go be commitment-phobic with someone else. Because I'm not trying to scare you, I'm not pointing a gun at you; I'm offering to be with you.''
One great way to make that really clear is to wear a wedding dress everywhere, always. [Contact Music]
So it's come to this. Robert Pattinson is hiding from Kristen Stewart in the Outback. While he films his next movie The Rover in the middle of Bumblefuck, Australia, he's enjoying the peace and quiet for the next three weeks, at which point he has to go back to L.A. and talk to K-Stew. He's "dreading" seeing her again, which is a pretty good indication that maybe they should just break up. Guys. Just break up. [Radar Online]
In the same revealing article where Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that she'd miscarried a third child, which would have been a younger sibling to Apple and Moses, she also hints that her marriage to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin may be on the skids. Their relationship is "complicated," she says, and goes on: "Regardless of what happens in our marriage, I chose the best father. We are committed co-parents."
("They are still very much together," says a source.) [Heatworld]
Kate wants a boy. Wills wants a girl. Queen Elizabeth wants a corgi. Who will win? [People]
Prince Harry joked with a club-goer that he'd date him if he breaks up with Cressida Bonas and changes his mind about women as a whole. [Metro.co.uk]
- A French porn star is suing Bow Wow for $80,000 after he put a video of her dancing up on the Interwebs. [TMZ]
- Want to buy me Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman's Toyota? Thanksss. [TMZ]
- Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall are fighting over their house in southwest London. [Contact Music]
- Britney Spears gave $100 to a homeless man on the street, which is totally nice, and also reminds me of this old-school SNL sketch. [Showbiz Spy]
- Blue Ivy's getting her own portable nursery when she goes on tour with Mommyoncé. [Entertainmentwise]
- Eva Mendes says that Ryan Gosling is "adorable" around kids. Raise your hand if you're surprised. No one? OK. [Independent.ie]
- Kylie Minogue's songwriter Cathy Dennis says that One Direction would be nuts to start writing their own songs. [The Sun]
- Let's play New Yorker Cartoon Caption or Real Life: David Hasselhoff is currently protesting the destruction of the historic Berlin Wall. [HuffPo]
- Charlize Theron went walking with her kid and a bunch of dogs. [Janet Charlton's Hollywood]
- Lil Wayne's hospital room is a hip-hop dork's wet dream. [Us weekly]
- Coco of "Ice Loves" had a birthday party with Ice-T at a club. LOVE. [Page Six]
- Cloris Leachman still knows how to party, and also screamed at a guy outside for smoking a cigarette. [Page Six]
- Marilyn Manson threw a smoke bomb into the parking lot of the theater where Spring Breakers was premiering because he's CRAAAZY, guys. "Apparently it's his signature move," says a source. Cool. [Page Six]
- Miley Cyrus got a possibly-Liam-related tattoo of two Da Vinci-style anatomically correct hearts. [Hello Magazine]
- It still seems likely that Elizabeth Hasselbeck will get the boot from The View despite Barbara Walters' denial. [Page Six]
- Kate Upton might finally get a Vogue cover. [Page Six]
- Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming went to the Copacabana Club for her 67th birthday and why the fuck wasn't I there? [Page Six]
- Ed Sheeran took a spill onstage. [NYDN]
- Prince played at SXSW for a record-breaking three hours that showcased his famous STAMINA (nahmean?), outlasted many concert-goers, at one point said hilariously: "Don't make me hurt you. You know how many hits I got?" [HuffPo]


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Madcap Golden Globes 'Hustle' to honor David O. Russell film
Amy Poehler made out with Bono, Tina Fey mocked George Clooney's taste in women and Matt Damon emerged, bizarrely, as the night's theme.
But at the end of a madcap Golden Globes (Fey toasted it as "the beautiful mess we hoped it would be"), the major honors soberly ended up with the favorites. David O. Russell's con-artist caper "American Hustle" led with three awards, including best film comedy. And despite missing out in the other six categories it was nominated in, the unflinching historical drama "12 Years a Slave" concluded the night as best film drama.
"A little bit in shock," said director Steve McQueen, before shrugging the lyrics to the old gospel song sung in the slavery epic: "Roll, Jordan, roll."
Russell's 1970s Abscam fictionalization "American Hustle" had the better night overall, winning acting awards for Amy Adams (best actress drama) and Jennifer Lawrence (best supporting actress). Best picture was the only award for "12 Years a Slave," which came in with seven nominations, tied for the most with "American Hustle."
Awards were otherwise spread around.
Matthew McConaughey took best actor in a drama for his performance in the Texas HIV drama "Dallas Buyers Club." Leonardo DiCaprio, a nine-time Golden Globe nominee, won his second Globe for best actor in a comedy for his work in "The Wolf of Wall Street."
The night's biggest winners may have been hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, whose second time hosting the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Beverly Hills, Calif., ceremony was just as successful as last year's show (a six-year ratings high with 19.7 million viewers).
The pair came out with a spree of punch lines, dishing them around the Beverly Hills Hilton, much to the delight of its starry audience. Damon, Meryl Streep and, naturally, George Clooney were among the targets. Fey particularly had the crowd roaring with a description of "Gravity," which stars Sandra Bullock and Clooney.
"George Clooney would rather float away in space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age," said Fey.
Many of the night's surprise winners were literally caught speechless. Andy Samberg (best actor in a comedy series, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), Elisabeth Moss (winner of best actress, miniseries or movie, for "Top of the Lake"), Robin Wright (best actress in a TV series, drama) and even Poehler, herself (best actress in a TV series, comedy), appeared particularly shocked to win and each stumbled through their thank you's. Poehler celebrated by making out with Bono.
Spike Jonze was also blindsided by his best screenplay win for his futuristic romance "Her."
"I'm a terrible public speaker," said Jonze. "And I'm bad at English. And it's the only language I know."
Four months after its final episode, AMC's "Breaking Bad" won for best drama TV series and best actor in a drama series for Bryan Cranston (both their first Globes). Cranston called his honor "a lovely way to say goodbye." Creator Vince Gilligan said the award gave him "one more chance to thank the fans of the show," but left the final word for star Aaron Paul.
"Yeah, bitch," declared Paul, with what essentially became his character's catch phrase.
U2 and Danger Mouse won the award for best original song for "Ordinary Love," recorded for the Nelson Mandela biopic "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." Bono said working on the film completed a decades-long journey with Mandela, having played an anti-apartheid concert some 35 years ago.
"This man turned our life upside down, right-side up," said Bono of the South African leader who died in December. "A man who refused to hate not because he didn't have rage or anger or those things, but that he thought love would do a better job."
Accepting the Globe for best supporting actor, Jared Leto also paid tribute to his inspiration. The actor, whose rock band took him away from movies for years before the part, won for playing a transsexual in "Dallas Buyers Club."
"To the Rayons of the world, thanks for the inspiration," said Leto.
As expected, the Emmy-winning HBO film "Behind the Candelabra," the acclaimed Liberace drama directed by Steven Soderbergh, won for best movie or miniseries, as well as best actor in a TV film for Michael Douglas. He thanked his co-star Damon.
"The only reason you're not here is I had more sequins," Douglas told Damon. (Earlier in the evening, Poehler said among such a famous crowd that Damon was "basically a garbage person.")
The telecast managed two expletives in its first 30 minutes, one from Moss, the other from Jacqueline Bisset (best supporting actress, miniseries or movie, "Dancing on the Edge"). Both were surprise winners.


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Remember when your eighth-grade English teacher told you that the three great themes in literature were "man against man, man against nature, and man against himself"? My favorite man-against-nature books include Adrift (Mariner, 256 pp., $14.95, paperback), Steven Callahan's bestselling memoir of spending 76 days lost at sea on an inflatable raft after his sailboat sank during a race from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean. The woman-against-nature category has produced other gems, such as Atlantic Circle (Norton, 1985), Kathryn Lasky Knight's true story of sailing across the Atlantic with her husband. Can Tori Murden McClure hold her own in her new memoir of rowing solo across the Atlantic, A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean (HarperCollins, 304 pp., $24.95)? A review will appear soon.
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When Trifecta goes topical, they don't mess around.
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Government shutdown? Uhuh.
They're channeling Halloween!
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Fashion style Round Toe Lace up and Side Zip Design,Fit For Most Foot Shape,Picked Calfskin Soft,Comfortable And Stand Wear And Tear.Waxed round personalized shoelaces.
The Rubber Sole Is High Elastic, Soft, Non Slip And Wear-Resistant.Just Right Heels, Comfortable And Show Out Your Long Legs.Each Shoes Fixed by Experienced Craftsman.It can be worn for years.
Color: Coffee/Black/Yellow
Material: Top Cowhide
Lining: Breathable cotton
Insole: Genuine Leather
Sole: Rubber
Heels: 3Cm/1.18"
Tube Height: 16Cm/6.3"
Production Time: About 7-10 days (Any exceptional case will email you, Please pay attention to your email left)
Shipping Time: Free Shipping To most locations, delivery time is approximately 5-15 days; We have paid FedEx Option, to most locations, delivery time is approximately 2-8 days.
Great Shoes To Spice Up Any Outfit, From Casual Jeans To Fancy Dress. The More You Wear Them, The More Comfortable They Will Become!
Item No. 1346
Notes: Measurement data are from size 7.
When size up the data will kick into motion to adapt most foot.
The survey has a margin of error of 1mm to 3mm. Data are for reference only.
Dwarves Shoes Size Details For Women:
Please note that the size for choice in the page are US size
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36 EU / 5.5 US / 3.5 UK / CN 35 fit for feet length 22.5 cm
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39 EU / 8.5 US / 6.5 UK / CN 40 fit for feet length 25 cm
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42 EU / 11.5 US / 9.5 UK / CN 45 fit for feet length 27.5 cm
More about how to choose the right size, Please read here:
Feel free to contact us with any other question or requirement firstname.lastname@example.com
2.High quality breathable pigskin inside, fine pore, comfortable, can better protect your feet.
3. Anti-skid and wear-resistant outsole. Soft, with anti-skid, shock absorption, wear resistance and other characteristics, good elasticity and waterproof performance,reliable foot feeling.
4. Perfect Shoe tree for Human Body
www.dwarvesshoes.com is the only official site of "Dwarves" brand, We do not have any other site which sell dwarves shoes. There are many sites copy us, but they are not us. They can not copy our shoes quality and customer service.
Production Time
1. Normally:
For styles are in stock, They will be ship within 48 hours.
For styles need to make, They will be ship within 7 days.
Once we find that we have no materials to make will send email to you.Please pay attention to your email left. If we can not contact you both by email and SMS within 30 days, We will refund the order Directly.
2. Busy Seasons:
May need more time, But we will try our best to ship out as soon as possible.
Handmade is not easy and we are doing it with our heart.
Cancellation of Order
You can cancel order before the order is shipped. Once the order is shipped, we can not take the shoes back in transit.
Cancellation of order please contact us by email:email@example.com
1. Shipping fee: Free shipping to all the countries and we have paid FedEx Option.
2. Shipping time:
Free Shipping To most locations, delivery time is approximately 5-15 days. Once your order is shipped, we will send you an email with the tracking number and tracking site.
We have paid FedEx Option, to most locations, delivery time is approximately 2-8 days.(FedEx to US and Canada is 3 - 4 days; FedEx to Australia is 5 - 8 days; Europe and South America is 4 - 7 days, Asia is 2 - 3 days)
We will only ship to the address you give us. Please make sure the shipping address you input during checkout is correct and complete, we are not responsible for any wrong or undeliverable addresses.If your package return because of Insufficient address or wrong address,we can not refund you,because we paid twice shipping fee ,It is more than the shoes.
3. We can not guaranteed arrival time and do not accept urgent orders.Please place your order in advance.
4.Normally Free Shipping to Australia is 20 days after shipping. So If you are from Australia and want to receive the package soon please choose paid FedEx in the shipping option. Free Shipping to US ,Canda is normal, 7-15 days will be delivered, Average 10 days. If you want fast, you can choose paid FedEx Option too.
Refunds and Exchanges
1. Change shoe size
Please check our size chart carefully before you place your order. You can exchange the size or style within 7 days from the time you receive our shipment, but please note that you will incur the cost of returning any shoes to us.( Please make sure with your local office.) We will cover the charge to ship out the replacement pair as long as the shoes are returned in the condition they were sent out.
2. Refund
Please contact us to get the return address.
Refunds and Exchanges Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
We will only ship to the address you give us. Please make sure the shipping address you input during checkout is correct and complete, we are not responsible for any wrong or undeliverable addresses. If your package return because of Insufficient address or wrong address, we can not refund you, because we paid twice shipping fee, It is more than the shoes.
Please note that we are unable to get the return label for our customers from Website Background Management System now. So all the returning need our customers to contact local logistics office(such as USPS, Canada post, Australia post ...) to ship back. Customers pay shipping cost as a result of their own error (ex: wrong size). We will refund any return shipping cost if the return is a result of our error.
How we wish we can offer more convenient return and exchange service to our customers! Our team is working with usps and looking forward to offer return label function on our Brand site soon.
3. Quality Problems
Shoes aren't made to last forever. Even well-made pairs will eventually show signs of wear and tear with constant use. Please learn to protect your leather shoes.
If your shoes appear quality problems within 30 days(from the time you receive)caused by nonartificial : such as sole cracking , upper cracking, heel cracking, degumming, peeling leather, we will exchange for you.
Within 90 days, any fault caused by nonartificial reason we should maintain it freely.
Process: email us →ship back the shoes→email us the package tracking code→when we receive the shoes will ship a new pair or maintain them
Shipping cost: Customer pay for the shipping back cost, we will pay for the ship again cost.
Please contact Email: firstname.lastname@example.com to execute the process.
Package Lost
The Logistics provider will Compensate the shoes if the package 60 days can not be delivered.We will follow-up you order and assist you. We are not responsible for any lost or returned or misdirected shipments based on incorrect addresses.
Information Safety
We do not use your information for any other purpose, only for fulfill order.Below is the details of privacy policy:
We are so sorry in this COVID-19 days the delivering is not stable. Please read the size details carefully. World wide delivery is not easy in this days. Returning is also some time easy some time hard and expensive.(Please make sure with your local office.)
We are Chinese craftsmen, All the shoes ship from China studio and return to China studio. We are trying to offer services returning to warehouses in the United States When our orders reach a certain quantity. Because shoes have so many styles, sizes and colors, it is not a standard product, sometimes customers have special request, So It is very hard to offer large inventory to local storehouse.
From 2012 to 2023, We are here for 11 years! Our brand site dwarvesshoes.com is opened on 2017, also over 6 years. We adhere to brand values and are trustworthy partners.
Note / Notice
# Dwarves leather products are different from each other due to leather texture and hand dyeing process.
# The real color of the product may be slightly different from the screen display due to the different lighting sources and user computer settings.
Maintenance methods
# Shoes are stored in dark, ventilated and dry places and avoid stacking with other leather products.
# After wearing shoes, you can use soft cloth or soft brush to remove dirt such as dust and dirt on the upper of shoes.
# If wet, replace the newspaper in shoes for 2 to 3 times in about 20 to 30 minutes and accept it after natural air drying.
# Avoid direct hot air drying or sun exposure
We accept Debit and credit card, Paypal payment.
1. Express Checkout with a Paypal account
Note: Paypal express checkout, the delivery address is default apply your Paypal shipping address, please be sure it's the correct delivery address.
2. Checkout Directly With Your credit card
A. Fill your email or phone in the "Contact information" Box. We will contact you about the order if needed.
B. Enter The Shipping address.
C. Choose"Standard Shipping" and continue
D. Payment choose "credit card",fill the card information and click "pay now".
3. Checkout with Debit or Credit Card Without Paypal Account
A. Fill your email or phone in the "Contact information" Box. We will contact you about the order if needed.
B. Enter The Shipping address.
C. Simply set the billing address "Same as shipping address".
D. Easy to check out with card, After Click "Complete Order":
E. "Continue as Guest" to complete the payment.
Note: Dwarves CAN NOT and WON'T collect your card AND personal information when you make a payment. All your personal information is safety and protected by Shopify and Paypal.4. How is Sales & Use Tax calculated?
The products price in Dwarvesshoes.com contains shipping Fee already.So you no need to pay Shipping Fee.
We ship the shoes as gift, and the value is below $800, so in most cases, there is no tax in the United States, Canada and Australia.
Please Note that Custom Tax is base on Policies in diffierent regions. We can not control and pay for the Custom Tax(tariff).
www.dwarvesshoes.com is the only official site of "Dwarves" brand, We do not have any other site which sell dwarves shoes. There are many sites copy us, but they are not us. They can not copy our shoes quality and customer service.
1, Tracking from our site:
Just click the "Track Your Order" link at the top of the site, than you can track with your order number or the tracking number we email you.
2, Tracking from your emails
You will receive a email named "A shipment from order #1174 is on the way", when your order ship out.
Simply click the tracking number to get tracking.
3, Login your dwarves account to track orders
A. Find the order in "order history";
B. click the "order number" you will see the order details;
C. Click the" tacking number" to get the tracking information.


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I said "no more veggie garden"…
The tiny veggie/herb garden is looking quite sad and empty, (do you remember when we built it?) It is very small compared to the veggie patch on the farm. So I couldn't resist buying some lettuce, rocket and Greek basil from Bunnings.
This is the "Bali" corner and also my small nursery area. Lurking under the tarpaulin is a mulcher which will soon be getting a lot of work. It has been a good season for rain and everything has doubled in size.
Here they are, my new babies. I've just transplanted them from the cells they came in and will coddle them in here till this present very hot spell (30+ temperatures) passes.
Did you notice the pink behind the shade cloth?
It is the Crepe Myrtle in full flower.
A sure sign of summer in the tropics is the Frangipani now coming into flower.
Under the Frangipani is an unusual Bromeliad.
It flowers for months.
In the week I have been home the temperatures have soared into 30+ and with a hot wind as well the garden can dry out quickly.
So the hose is in use every night. Notice the handy bench to sit and have a rest on?
The ponds are looking good.
Over on the door the masks that Jack made are keeping an eye on things.
Here is a gallery of some other things flowering at the moment.
Look at the lemons, this tree is only a year old.
So life goes on in the garden. Hope you enjoyed the look around.
I'll join Jo's Monday walk today, come over to visit her. Actually it is more a saunter, and if it gets too hot you can sit and rest on one of the benches.


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|Kernel Developer's Manual
NAME¶socket — kernel socket interface
SYNOPSIS¶#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/socketvar.h> int
sobind(struct socket *so, struct sockaddr *nam, struct thread *td); void
soclose(struct socket *so); int
soconnect(struct socket *so, struct sockaddr *nam, struct thread *td); int
socreate(int dom, struct socket **aso, int type, int proto, struct ucred *cred, struct thread *td); int
sogetopt(struct socket *so, struct sockopt *sopt); int
soreceive(struct socket *so, struct sockaddr **psa, struct uio *uio, struct mbuf **mp0, struct mbuf **controlp, int *flagsp); int
sosetopt(struct socket *so, struct sockopt *sopt); int
sosend(struct socket *so, struct sockaddr *addr, struct uio *uio, struct mbuf *top, struct mbuf *control, int flags, struct thread *td); int
soshutdown(struct socket *so, int how);
DESCRIPTION¶The kernel socket programming interface permits in-kernel consumers to interact with local and network socket objects in a manner similar to that permitted using the socket(2) user API. These interfaces are appropriate for use by distributed file systems and other network-aware kernel services. While the user API operates on file descriptors, the kernel interfaces operate directly on struct socket pointers. Except where otherwise indicated, socket functions may sleep, and are not appropriate for use in an ithread(9) context or while holding non-sleepable kernel locks.
Creating and Destroying Sockets¶A new socket may be created using socreate(). As with socket(2), arguments specify the requested domain, type, and protocol via dom, type, and proto. The socket is returned via aso on success. In addition, the credential used to authorize operations associated with the socket will be passed via cred (and will be cached for the lifetime of the socket), and the thread performing the operation via td. Warning: authorization of the socket creation operation will be performed using the thread credential for some protocols (such as raw sockets). Sockets may be closed and freed using soclose(), which has similar semantics to close(2).
Connections and Addresses¶The sobind() function is equivalent to the bind(2) system call, and binds the socket so to the address nam. The operation would be authorized using the credential on thread td. The soconnect() function is equivalent to the connect(2) system call, and initiates a connection on the socket so to the address nam. The operation will be authorized using the credential on thread td. Unlike the user system call, soconnect() returns immediately; the caller may msleep(9) on so->so_timeo while holding the socket mutex and waiting for the
SS_ISCONNECTING flag to clear or
so->so_error to become non-zero. If
soconnect() fails, the caller must manually clear the
SS_ISCONNECTING flag.
The soshutdown() function is equivalent to the
shutdown(2) system call, and causes part or all of a
connection on a socket to be closed down.
Socket Options¶The sogetopt() function is equivalent to the getsockopt(2) system call, and retrieves a socket option on socket so. The sosetopt() function is equivalent to the setsockopt(2) system call, and sets a socket option on socket so. The second argument in both sogetopt() and sosetopt() is the sopt pointer to a struct sopt describing the socket option operation. The caller-allocated structure must be zeroed, and then have its fields initialized to specify socket option operation arguments:
- sopt_dir
- Set to
SOPT_GETdepending on whether this is a get or set operation.
- sopt_level
- Specify the level in the network stack the operation is
targeted at; for example,
- sopt_name
- Specify the name of the socket option to set.
- sopt_val
- Kernel space pointer to the argument value for the socket option.
- sopt_valsize
- Size of the argument value in bytes.
Socket I/O¶The soreceive() function is equivalent to the recvmsg(2) system call, and attempts to receive bytes of data from the socket so, optionally blocking awaiting for data if none is ready to read. Data may be retrieved directly to kernel or user memory via the uio argument, or as an mbuf chain returned to the caller via mp0, avoiding a data copy. Only one of the uio or mp0 pointers may be non-
NULL. The caller may optionally
retrieve a socket address on a protocol with the
PR_ADDR capability by providing storage via
NULL psa argument. The
caller may optionally retrieve control data mbufs via a
NULL controlp argument.
Optional flags may be passed to soreceive() via a
NULL flagsp argument, and
use the same flag name space as the recvmsg(2) system call.
The sosend() function is equivalent to the
sendmsg(2) system call, and attempts to send bytes of data
via the socket so, optionally blocking if data cannot be
immediately sent. Data may be sent directly from kernel or user memory via the
uio argument, or as an mbuf chain via
top, avoiding a data copy. Only one of the
uio or top pointers may be
NULL. An optional destination address may be
specified via a non-
NULL addr
argument, which may result in an implicit connect if supported by the
protocol. The caller may optionally send control data mbufs via a
NULL control argument. Flags
may be passed to sosend() using the
flags argument, and use the same flag name space as the
sendmsg(2) system call.
Kernel callers running in ithread(9) context, or with a mutex
held, will wish to use non-blocking sockets and pass the
MSG_DONTWAIT flag in order to prevent these functions
from sleeping.
SEE ALSO¶bind(2), close(2), connect(2), getsockopt(2), recv(2), send(2), setsockopt(2), shutdown(2), socket(2), ng_ksocket(4), ithread(9), msleep(9), ucred(9)
HISTORY¶The socket(2) system call appeared in 4.2BSD. This manual page was introduced in FreeBSD 7.0.
AUTHORS¶This manual page was written by Robert Watson.
BUGS¶The use of explicitly passed credentials, credentials hung from explicitly passed threads, the credential on
curthread, and the
cached credential from socket creation time is inconsistent, and may lead to
unexpected behaviour. It is possible that several of the
td arguments should be cred
arguments, or simply not be present at all.
The caller may need to manually clear
SS_ISCONNECTING if
soconnect() returns an error.
MSG_DONTWAIT flag is not implemented for
sosend(), and may not always work with
soreceive() when zero copy sockets are enabled.
This manual page does not describe how to register socket upcalls or monitor a
socket for readability/writability without using blocking I/O.
The soref() and sorele() functions are not
described, and in most cases should not be used, due to confusing and
potentially incorrect interactions when sorele() is last
called after soclose().
|December 14, 2006


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One of the great flaws of the weblog format is how older information, no matter how good it is, fades away under the deluge of new posts. As Mists of Pandaria launches next week, I thought it appropriate to take a look back over Cataclysm before everything gets buried.
This post has a secondary motive. I am going to take a bit of a vacation from Cynwise and recharge my mental batteries, so this blog will be on hiatus until 2013. Since this weblog is pretty big – I write a lot, okay – I thought putting a map for new visitors up at the very top of the front page was the best way for me to leave the store unattended for a while.
So let's start here, at Cataclysm's end.
In 2012, I wrote a book called The Decline and Fall of Warlocks in Cataclysm. It didn't start out as a book, but rather as a series of posts analyzing why warlock populations were falling. An unpopular class was growing less so: why?
The core thesis of Decline is that warlock populations declined because of Inelegant Complexity without Reward; that multiple factors lead to players either abandoning the class or the game entirely. This thesis was debated in comments, in forums, in emails, and even in Blizzard development team meetings. It was, and remains, a contested theory, but it's one that I absolutely stand by. Decline framed the discussion around the future of warlocks at a critical time in their development in Mists, and I think the class dev team did a great job with fixing the problems of Cataclysm.
I would love to share more of the stories behind this, like getting emailed by Xelnath while at my kid's soccer game and going, okay, this is only the second strangest email I've gotten from my blog, or arguing with my editor Narci over whether a tangent was worth exploring (it almost always is.) I'd love to debate more about if Demonology should be a tanking spec (yes) and the challenges that have to be overcome to make that happen (itemization, player resistance, tank balance, active vs. passive mitigation strategies) – but alas, there is no more time. Mists is here, time to move on.
I'll have to share those stories over tacos or something at Blizzcon next year.
If Decline was the most important post I wrote in the past year, I think my best post was something totally different – On Snow Crash, Virtual Avatars, and Warcraft's Social Network Appeal, which I wrote back in January. The "Snow Crash Post" (and its followup) was born out of a frenzied realization where I could see how Twitter and Facebook had irrevocably changed the MMO landscape, and that doing stuff with your friends is the whole thing now.
Ghostcrawler said "playing with your friends is the sleeper hit of Mists of Pandaria," and I completely agree. So many changes have been made to Warcraft to enable this simple thing that I can't help but add two more predictions to the Snow Crash list: cross-faction grouping will become a thing, and Blizzard will license the Battle.net API infrastructure.
We'll see if I'm right.
This weblog started off as Cynwise's Battlefield Manual and (mostly) focused on casual battlegrounds and Player versus Player (PvP) content. It was an area which I have really enjoyed writing about, but there are three contributions I'm most proud of:
Topological Battleground Maps – inspired by the London Tube map, I depicted the logical flow of the various battlegrounds instead of the terrain in maps. (Developed here, refined here and here, seen all over.) In many ways, this map style was essential to my future writing on battlegrounds – I needed a better way to explain what I was talking about than just marking up maps.
Resurrection Vectors – BGs are won and lost by controlling graveyards, but the why and how is hard to explain if you don't have a way to describe the way troops move when their killed. Starting with Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley, my posts on Graveyard Control and Rez Vectors looked at a lot of the battleground maps before I stopped. If you want to know why you don't take the South Graveyard in Strand or why graveyard camping works, you should read these posts.
Relentlessly Positive Attitude – More than maps and theory, what I hope my writing about PvP accomplished was to inspire people to do better. To try those things they thought they couldn't do, to find fun in things that they thought were too hard. That's why I kept writing for so long – I really enjoyed teaching people how to play, and I hope I inspired them to have fun. You'll see this attitude in posts like my guide to The School of Hard Knocks (wow, is that old!) or How To Win Tol Barad – where I had to take my own advice, knuckle down and figure out how to win that damn thing. But you'll also find it in my passionate defenses of Healers Have To Die, talking about disposable heroes and iterative twinks, and even the ever popular PvP gear guides.
PvP can be fun. Just don't give up. You can do this. Keep on trying.
There are other PvP posts which I think are worth noting – The 20 v. 24 War looked at the impact of Stater Edition twinks on the 20-24 bracket, The Battle for Gilneas is a straightforward guide to the best battleground of Cataclysm are both standouts – but I think it's also important to remember the things which didn't go well in PvP, like the rating exploits which caused so many problems in S9-S11, the increasingly hard PvP reputation grind, the repeated attempts to make Rated Battlegrounds popular, or the S9-S10 gear transition fiasco.
Actually, that last post about the S9-S10 PvP gear transition is a good one to stop and reflect on for a bit.
While writing Decline, I repeatedly said that I didn't quit playing my warlock because of the increased complexity without reward, but that is very much the reason I didn't go back to her for over a year. The reason I quit playing her was twofold:
- A really big elephant in my room, and
- getting seriously pissed about that S9-S10 gear transition.
You could look Cataclysm as an arc in my weblog: starting with Blizzard Killed My Dog (I still love that title), to a nadir at On Priorities, Elephants, and Desire, and then up to the Decline and Fall of Warlocks in Cataclysm. This has been a story of someone losing his way and finding it again.
The way back was through an experiment I started right after the one-two punch of the elephant post/S9 transition, Cynwise's Field Notes, an experimental weblog where I stopped writing about warlocks and PvP and instead wrote about … whatever the hell I wanted.
It was liberating. Instead of the long, researched, carefully considered posts that went up on the Battlefield Manual, I adopted what were to become my Five Rules for Cynwise's Field Notes, where I stopped obsessing over every little detail and just hit publish. Post after post came out, some not very good, others that I think were quite groundbreaking or prescient for the time.
I was really honored to receive several nominations for the 2011 Piggies on MMO Melting Pot. I was even more blown away by not only receiving several honorable mentions, but also winning the 2011 Most Memorable Blog Post award for my CFN post, On the Forsaken. That post not only led to On Blogging Heroes (in response to the Piggie award), it inspired several entries in the Blizzard Global Writing contest, including one of the 2011 Finalists, Daughter of Lordaeron. This, in turn, led to me picking the thread back up again in On Silverpine Forest, which lands me right in the middle of the Forsaken storyline and embracing the cause of the Dark Queen.
Will there be an On Hillsbrad Foothills? I hope so! Baby Cynwise is still waiting… though she's like level 29 from leveling gathering professions. >.>
During this time the PvP Columnist position at WoW Insider opened up. I declined with several regrets, as I think the staff there is great and it would have been a great experience. But in retrospect it was the right decision, not only for me, but for WI. (Oliva Grace is fantastic in the role, much better than I would have been, and has become a great contributor to their site. I wish her, and the entire WI staff, well heading into Mists.)
There are a lot of standouts from the CFN days; take a look through the CFN tag on this site, or visit the original site on Posterous if it's still available. (I moved the posts back to this site because I had, frankly, too many sites. This decision seemed really wise when Posterous's future came in doubt after the company was acquired by Twitter.) Some of them, like On Digital Detritus and the Merit Badge post, are still really applicable as we head into Mists.
I'm not going to lie, I kinda miss that website now.
I don't really know what will be involved in this break. There are no hard and fast rules in life, just guiding principles like "don't give up" and "put first things first." I have been Cynwise online for almost 4 years now. We're comfortable friends, she and I, even though I'm a middle-aged married father of two and she's an ambitious warlock from Northshire in a video game. I, the person behind Cyn, who's the player and author behind Cynwise, need a bit of a break from all those layers. I might set aside my Twitter for a bit as Mists gets going, I might not, who knows? I sure don't.
Thank you very much for reading Cynwise's Warcraft Manual, Cynwise's Battlefield Manual, Cynwise's Field Notes, Green Tinted Goggles, Punt This, Go Mog Yourself, The Adventures of Sparkbinder Cynix in the Worldbreaker's Shadow, The Warlock Is For Burning, and the continued insanity which is @wowcynwise's Twitter feed. (Dear LORD that is a lot of weblogs, did I really do all of that?) I really appreciate it, and hope that you've enjoyed what you've read.
My BattleTag is Cynwise#1158. I'm still planning on playing, but will be quieter on the internet – so please, keep in touch.
Be good to each other, and enjoy the pandas.


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The Dallas Museum of Art has agreed to return six looted antiquities from its collection and announced a broad new initiative to exchange expertise and artwork with cultural institutions around the world.
"The problems of illegal excavation and the illicit import of cultural property require the consideration of new models of cooperation among institutions," the museum said in a release announcing the initiative, dubbed the Dallas Museum of Art Exchange Program, or DMX.
The effort was announced Monday while signing an agreement with Turkey, the museum's first partner, for the return of the Orpheus Mosaic, a Roman mosaic floor looted near Edessa (today's Sanliurfa) and acquired at a Christies auction by the DMA in 1999.
In explaining the return, the museum cited compelling new evidence presented by Turkish investigators about the mosaic's illicit origins: "Two newly recovered in situ photos of the mosaic showing it being removed by the smugglers. The photographs also show the full work with its decorative borders intact, prior to it being removed from the ground. The photographs were printed by a local photo shop in Sanliurfa and are currently evidence in a criminal investigation being carried out by the Sanliurfa Head Prosecutor in order to identify everyone involved in the crime." The image shows the mosaic with a border that was likely removed by looters, the museum notes, adding, " The canister visible in the lower right contains a Turkish brand of glue, which looters–not archaeologists–would have used to make repairs."
Notably, the Dallas museum initiated the return of the mosaic instead of waiting for it to be identified by Turkish authorities, who have been on a campaign to repatriate looted antiquities. Soon after Maxwell Anderson started as director in January, he asked the museum's antiquities curators to identify objects with troubling ownership histories. The mosaic was found to be nearly identical to several published on a website of Turkey of looted objects. Anderson told the Dallas Morning News:
the last thing he wanted was "to be the recipient of a claim by Turkey and be unprepared, seeing all of that evidence. So, I wrote to the embassy, saying if you have any information about this mosaic, please let us know. I didn't have any specific information, but it seemed circumstantially that it was very likely that it was removed from that site." Turkish officials came forward with the photograph of the mosaic, "which is all you need to know," Anderson said.
In addition to the Orpheus mosaic, the Dallas museum agreed to return five antiquities to Italy in response to law enforcement requests. All five
Two of those objects were first questioned by us in a Jan. 11 email to the museum inquiring about links between the DMA and the illicit trade, including antiquities dealer Edoardo Almagia. After our inquiry, the DMA contacted Italy and has now agreed to return them.
UPDATE: In February, we requested provenance information for 15 of the DMA's recent acquisitions, including the five pieces returned this week, that we selected at random. They helpfully provided the list we posted here. We asked yesterday on Twitter whether other objects on that list might also be returned — several come from dealers who have also been implicated in the illicit trade. A museum spokeswoman now tells us: "Italian and Greek authorities have reviewed our collections records, including the works you refer to in your recent post, and have advanced no other claims." Of course, some of the material on the list, such as the Cycladic figurine, likely came from other countries.
The objects going back to Italy — and the DMA's explanation for their return — offer a helpful who's who of the illicit antiquities trade.
Two Etruscan shields with the head of Acheloos (Etruscan 6th Century BC)
Volute Krater (Pulian, 4th Century BC).
As we noted in February, both were purchased from antiquities dealer Edoardo Almagià in 1998. The museum describes Almagià as "a former New York antiquities dealer…currently named in a criminal case for conspiracy to commit the illegal export and smuggling of cultural property pending before the Public Prosecutor of Rome. Almagià has been under investigation since at least 2006, when U.S. Customs officials raided his New York apartment, confiscating photographs, documents, and archaeological material. He was also the subject of a New York Times story in 2010 that revealed he and Michael Padgett,
former antiquities curator at the Princeton University Art Museum, were the focus of an investigation of the illegal export and laundering of Italian archaeological objects. The Italian government named Almagià in the criminal case for having 'sold, donated, or lent' nearly two dozen works looted from Italian sites to the Princeton Museum. Roughly twenty other objects are listed in the case as having been obtained illegally by Almagià and sold to other American institutions in the 1980s and 1990s, including this pair of shields." UPDATE: The DMA incorrectly referred to Padgett as the former antiquities curator at Princeton. The Princeton Museum confirms he remains on staff there, and the DMA has corrected is post.
As evidence that the statue and krater were looted, the museum cited "photographs provided that were seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials" and "archival evidence seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, including records of sales and correspondence currently serving as evidence in the criminal investigation and court case."
Dallas now joins the Met and Princeton in returning objects linked to the dealer. (We've written about those returns here and here.) Will the other museums we've identified with Almagia material — including the Getty, the Boston MFA, San Antonio Museum of Art, Indiana University — now be motivated to do the same?
A Red Figure krater (Apulia, 4th Century BC) acquired by DMA at Sotheby's in 1996.
A Calxy Krater (Campagnia, 4th Century BC) acquired from the vases form Ward and Co. around 2005, said to be from a "Swiss private collection."
Both vases have been linked to Gianfranco Becchina, who the museum describes as "a Sicilian antiquities dealer who has been convicted in Italy of dealing in stolen antiquities. Becchina started dealing in antiquities from his premises in Basel, Switzerland, in the 1970s and is said to have sold to several major museums, sometimes through Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses in London. In May 2002, the Carabinieri, in collaboration with the Swiss police, raided his storage facilities in Basel, recovering thousands of objects in various stages of restorations, photographs of artifacts, and other documents."
"The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Toledo Museum of Art have both returned material to Italy that was acquired from Becchina and subsequently shown to have been illegally exported."
"In April 2012 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized two works from Christie's New York auction house that were associated with the investigation of Becchina. According to the Carabinieri, Gianfranco Becchina has been identified as one of the most prolific known traffickers of Italian cultural heritage, and all property that has been shown to have been illicitly trafficked by Becchina is subject to confiscation."
You can find a list of our previous posts mentioning Becchina here.
Etruscan head of an Antefix. Said to be from Henri Jacques of Geneva. Purchased from Robin Symes in about 1999.
A photograph linked this antefix to Giacomo Medici, who the museum describes as "a former antiquities dealer based in Rome, Italy, and Geneva, Switzerland, who was found guilty of receiving stolen goods, illegal export of goods, and conspiracy to traffic by the Italian government and sentenced to ten years in prison and a €10 million fine. In 1995 the Carabinieri, in concert with Swiss police, raided Medici's storage space in Geneva, which contained thousands of objects, photographs (including many Polaroids), and documents relating to his business practices and connections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Metropolitan Museum of Art have all returned objects that were acquired via Giacomo Medici. Along with Gianfranco Becchina, he has been identified by the Carabinieri as one of the most prolific known traffickers of Italian cultural heritage."
Robin Symes, the dealer form whom the DMA purchased the objects, has also been linked to the illicit trade, the museum notes. "Symes is also accused of playing a pivotal role in the illegal trade of looted antiquities. Several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, have already returned several objects acquired through Symes. He is known to have commercial relations with dealer Giacomo Medici, who was the ultimate source of the artifacts that would subsequently be sold through dealers or auction houses. Prior to the Medici conviction, Robin Symes had been involved in a civil court case, and in January 2005 he was sentenced to two years in prison for contempt of court for not fully disclosing his assets."
You can find our other posts mentioning Symes here.
We'll have more on the significance of the returns and the DMA's new loans initiative in a future post.


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Orleans man pleads guilty to home invasion
Leroy Doty, 41, of Orleans entered a plea of guilty to one count of home invasion in the second degree Tuesday in Ionia County 8th Circuit Court.
In exchange for the plea, three other counts were dismissed and Doty could get six months in jail. Second degree home Invasion is a felony which carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $3,000.
Doty is accused of breaking into a home on North State Road in Ronald Township Jan. 9 and taking a television. He was arrested shortly after the incident by deputies from the Ionia County Sheriff's Office after a vehicle matching the description of the suspect vehicle was stopped north of the victim's home, according to a press release from the ICSO.
Doty's attorney, Patrick Duff, told Circuit Court Chief Judge Suzanne Hoseth Kreeger his client is experiencing financial hardship and when he broke into the home had wanted to provide income for his family, in an inappropriate manner, of course, Duff added. He asked that Doty's bond of $20,000 be reduced, so that he can get out of jail and attend a social security dire needs request hearing.
Ionia County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Lori Kirkhoff argued against the request by Duff to lower bond, saying that Doty is accused of a "serious crime (that includes) invasion of privacy.
"I have grave concerns about what he'll do while out on bond or if he will even appear, especially given the emotional state he is under while he is here (in the courtroom)," Kirkhoff said, referring to Doty crying during much of the proceedings.
Kirkhoff added that the same request regarding bond had been made at Doty's arraignment in Ionia County 64A District Court, where Judge Raymond Voet had said "he was surprised at how low (bond) was and denied a request to lower it," she said.
Kreeger denied the request that bond be lowered, but added that she would not object to Doty's being released to a family member for the hearing, but then returning to jail following the hearing.
Sentencing will be in six to eight weeks.
William Kilburn
In other Circuit Court action, attorney David Mierendorf filed a motion requesting his client, William Kilburn, undergo a competency hearing and forensic review.
Kilburn, 19, of Pontiac is facing criminal sexual conduct and child porn charges in Ionia County after a joint investigation by the Ionia County Sheriff's Office and Montcalm County Sheriff's Office of a complaint involving child sexually abusive materials discovered in Montcalm County. He was arrested Nov. 21 in Oakland County after allegedly soliciting a 16-year-old Ionia County girl to obtain the materials for him, and conspiring to have sexual intercourse with an 8-year-old relative of the girl, said Det. Phillip Hesche of the Ionia County Sheriff's Office.
Mierendorf told the court his client, who has a history of mental illness, exhibited "unusual behavior" and that he doesn't believe "he comprehended our conversation." He asked for and was granted an extension of the deadline for notifying the court and prosecutor of intent by the defense to assert an insanity defense pending the results of the competency hearing.
Kilburn remains at the Ionia County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
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On Thursday I wrote about 100 One-Night Reads, a collection of 100 essays on short books — a volume I liked partly for its variety. David and John Major don't pander to book clubs by focusing on recent bestsellers or other popular choices. They cover many kinds of good fiction and nonfiction – travel, humor, science, memoirs, mystery, fantasy, history, public affairs – though they favor 20th century classics.
Here are excepts from their comments on two books that have helped to shaped the modern environmental movement, A Sand County Almanac and My First Summer in the Sierra:
On Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac:
"Aldo Leopold is one of the heroes of modern environmentalism, and A Sand County Almanac is one of the movement's classics. In the half century since it was published, this book has inspired readers with its impassioned call for radical change in human attitudes toward the planet that sustains us. …
"The first part of the book is the almanac proper: observations from the Leopolds' family retreat arranged seasonally. The writing here is memorable; many books remain in one's consciousness only in general terms, but after reading A Sand County Almanac you will find yourself startled by the immediacy of the author's vision. … a chorus of sound in the middle distance might bring to mind Leopold's precise comments on 'the proceedings of the convention in the marsh' (March) or the virtues of the songs of the more elusive birds (September).
"The second part of the book, 'Sketches Here and There,' collects some of Leopold's essays written about regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, describing perspectives and incidents that contributed to the formulation of his mature views." www.aldoleopold.org/books/Default.asp
On John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra
"After explorations that included a thousand-mile walk to the Gulf Coast, [John Muir] traveled to California, arriving in San Francisco in 1868. In the summer of 1869, he book a job with a rancher acquaintance, overseeing the movement of flocks to mountain pastures.
"As a supervisor of the enterprise, Muir assembled a crew of two – a shepherd named Billy and a borrowed St. Bernard dog, Carlo – to go on the trip. Able to rely on their expert work in dealing with the sheep, Muir found himself with time to indulge his passion for the explorations of nature. My First Summer in the Sierra, based on his contemporary journal (though not published until 1911), is the record of that extraordinary time. Although Muir was in the Sierra that summer for less than four months, we come away from the book feeling that his time there was much longer, and in some sense permanent."
Read the first chapter of My First Summer in the Sierra at www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/my_first_summer_in_the_sierra/chapter_1.html
To read the review of 100 One-Night Reads, click here www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/ .
© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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